SCOM monitoring network interfaces

Depta, Michal 1 Reputation point
2020-09-11T17:41:01.097+00:00

Hello,

I'm a network engineer and couldn't get answer from our monitoring team (we use SCOM) and have a question if it's possible to setup monitoring for two separate port-channels in such a way that when port-channel A is up and port-channel B is down and vice versa it's not generating alert but it's generating alert when both of them are down at the same time?

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  1. Leon Laude 85,666 Reputation points
    2020-09-12T16:46:42.737+00:00

    Hi @Depta, Michal ,

    You could consider using aggregate rollup monitors for your network interfaces, for more information see:

    Aggregate Monitors
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/system-center/system-center-2012-R2/hh457599(v=sc.12)

    You can also check my blog post about it over here:
    https://thesystemcenterblog.com/2020/01/26/scom-alert-basics/#3_Aggregate_Rollup_Monitors

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    Leon

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  2. Crystal-MSFT 43,221 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-09-14T01:24:19.497+00:00

    @Depta, Michal , From your description, I know you want to generate alert only when both A and B port-channel are down. If there' s any misunderstanding, please let us know.

    Based on my experience, aggregate monitor can help. We can set "Health Rollup Policy" as Best state. It will matches the state of the child monitor with the best health state. We can see more details in the following link:
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    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15209.operations-manager-management-pack-authoring-aggregate-and-dependency-monitors.aspx

    Hope it can help.

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